flower vendor by amedeo modigliani
Pfannstiel Lanthemann Ceroni J. Modigliani Parisot Patani Restellini Wayne
Nº 122 - Nº 221 Nº 417 Nº 331 YES 12/1919 Nº 343 ? ?
Date 1919
Title The Flower vendor - The florist - Seated woman - Young woman seated
Materials oil on canvas?
Size 116.8 × 73.7  cm (45 x 37.5 cm?- Parisot 46 x 38 cm)
Signature: Signed "modigliani" top right
Actual Location Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA ( Inv. Nº 1996.403.9)
Provenance -?-

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Louis Libaude Collection, Paris (until 1925)
Galerie Bing, Paris, (1925 – 1927)
Lepoutre Collection, Paris
Lecomte-Durey Collection, Paris (in 1929)
Mme. Lederlin Collection, Paris
Sale: Mme Lederlin Auction, Galerie Charpentier, Paris, 22-23 / March / 1933- Lot 136 (23.090 FF)
Hessel Collection, Paris (acquired from above)
Private Collection, Zurich (Schoenborn Collection?)
Mme Marquiset, Paris
Paul Rosenberg Gallery, New York (acquired from above in 1950 - stock no. 5391 - for 3,500,000FF)
Samuel and Florene Marx Collection, Chicago (acquired from above in 3 / November /1950 - for 18.000 USD) 1950 - 1964
Florene May Marx, later Mrs. Wolfgang Schoenborn, New York - 1964 - 1995

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA ( Inv. Nº 1996.403.9)
Bequest to MMA by Florene May Schoenborn- 1995

In process

Bibliography -?-

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George, Modigliani, lamour de lart, Paris, October 1925, p. 383 - titled La Marchande de fleurs
Vlaminck, Modigliani, L'Art vivant, Paris, November 1925
Salmon, Modigliani, sa vie et son oeuvre, Ed. des Quatres Chemins, Paris, 1926, pl. 12 - titled La Fleuriste - dated 1917
Scheiwiller, Arte Moderna Italiana nº 8 Amedeo Modigliani, U. Hoepli Ed. Milano, 1927, pl. 2 - titled La Fioraia - dated 1917
Pfannstiel, "catalogue presume" Modigliani. L'Art et la Vie. Preface de Louis Latourrettes, Seheur, Paris, 1929, p. 106 - presume, p. 18, pl 91 and repeated in p. 36 ? - dated 1917
"Les Ventes." Le Bulletin de l'art ancien et moderne no. 797 (May 1933), pp. 239–40, ill., as sold for Fr 23,090 in the Lederlin sale.
Taguchi, Modigliani, Alier-Sha Tokyo, 1936, pl. 13
Apra, Tormento di Modigliani, Bietti, Milano 1945, p. 81
San Lazzaro, Modigliani peintures, Les Éditions du Chêne, Paris, 1953, pl. 41
Pfannstiel, Modigliani et son oeuvre, etude critique et catalogue raisonne, bibliotheque des arts, Paris, 1956 - nº 122 - dated 1917 - titled the flower vendor and repeated in nº 221 - dated 1917 - titled the flower vendor
Roy , Modigliani, Skira, Lausanne, 1958 - dated 1917
Maxon, Samuel Marx, Chicago: Twentieth-century European Painting, Great Private Collections. Ed. Douglas Cooper. New York, 1963, pp. 283, 286, ill. pp. 285, 291 -titled seated woman - dated 1915-16 
Lippard, The School of Paris: Paintings from the Florene May Schoenborn and Samuel A. Marx Collection. Exh. cat., Museum of Modern Art. New York, 1965, pp. 43–44 - dated 1917
Ceroni, Amedeo Modigliani : dessins et sculptures ; avec suite du catalogue illustre des peintures, Edizioni del Milione, Milano, 1965 - nº 218 - titled Jeune femme assise (La marchande de fleurs) - dated 1919
Soby, The School of Paris: Paintings from the Florene May Schoenborn and Samuel A. Marx Collection. Exh. cat., Museum of Modern Art. New York, 1965, pp. 43-44 (dated 1917)
Lanthemann, Modigliani, catalogue raisonné: sa vie, son oeuvre, son art, G. Condal, Barcelona, 1970 - nº 417 - titled Young woman seated (La marchande de fleurs) - dated 1919
Ceroni & Piccioni, Il dipinti di Modigliani, Rizzoli, Milano, 1970 - nº 331 - titled Young woman seated (La marchande de fleurs) - dated 1919
Ceroni & Cachin, Tout l'oeuvre peint de Modigliani, Paris, 1972 - nº 331 - titled Young woman seated (La marchande de fleurs) - dated 1919
Hubbard, Modigliani and the painters of Montparnasse, Lamplight Publ. New York, 1975, p. 28, pl. 18
Roy, Modigliani, Nathan, Paris, 1985, p. 158 - p. 139 - dated 1919
Parisot, Catalogue Raisonee Modigliani, Graphis Arte, 1991 - nº 12/1919 - titled La marchande de fleurs - dated 1919
Patani, Catalogo Generale, Leonardo, Milano, 1991-94 - nº 343 - titled Young seated (La marchande de fleurs) - dated 1919
Lieberman, "Donnés au Met." Connaissance des arts no. 539 (May 1997), pp. 68–69
Roos, Der kühle Blick: Realismus der zwanziger Jahre. Ed. Wieland Schmied. Exh. cat., Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung. Munich, 2001, pp. 244–45
Rewald, Masterpieces of French Painting from The Metropolitan Museum of Art: 1800–1920. Exh. cat., Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. New York, 2007, pp. 177, 236 - nº 132
Rewald, Masterpieces of European Painting, 1800–1920, in The Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, 2007, pp. 209, 278 - nº 193
Brenner, The Talk: Marxism from Designing to Collecting, Samuel Marx Did It with Flair." New York Times Magazine (October 7, 2007), ill. p. 90
Brown, "The Great Beauty: Modigliani, 'Nu Couché' and the Grand Tradition of the Female Nude." Amedeo Modigliani: "Nu Couché". Ed. Robert Brown. New York, 2015, ill. pp. 12–13, 157–58


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Exhibitions -?-

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Paris, Modigliani, Galerie Bing et Cie, 1925 - nº 6
Dresden, Internationale Kunst Ausstellung, location unknown, 1926 - nº 196
Brussels, Modigliani: Retrospective Exhibition. Palais des beaux-arts, 1933 - nº 44 - dated 1917
Basel, Amedeo Modigliani, Kunsthalle, 1934 - nº 36
New York, Exhibition of 20th Century French Paintings, Rosenberg Galleries, 1950 - nº 8 - dated 1917
Cleveland, Modigliani - Soutine Exhibition, Cleveland Museum of Art, 1951 - dated 1917
New York, Modigliani - Soutine Exhibition, The Museum of Modern Art, 1951 - dated 1917
Chicago, Amedeo Modigliani: Paintings, Sculpture and Drawings, The Arts Club, 1959
New York, The School of Paris: Paintings from the Florene May Schoenborn and Samuel A. Marx Collection, Museum of Modern Art, 1965-1966
Chicago, The School of Paris: Paintings from the Florene May Schoenborn and Samuel A. Marx Collection, Art Institute of Chicago, 1966
Saint Louis, The School of Paris: Paintings from the Florene May Schoenborn and Samuel A. Marx Collection, City Art Museum of Saint Louis, 1966
México city, The School of Paris: Paintings from the Florene May Schoenborn and Samuel A. Marx Collection, Museo de Arte Moderno, 1966
San Francisco, The School of Paris: Paintings from the Florene May Schoenborn and Samuel A. Marx Collection , San Francisco Museum of Art, 1966
New York, The Florene M. Schoenborn Bequest: 12 Artists of the School of Paris, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1997 - nº 12
New York, Painters in Paris: 1895–1950, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000
Munich, Der kühle Blick: Realismus der zwanziger Jahre, Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung, 2001
Houston, Masterpieces of French Painting from The Metropolitan Museum of Art: 1800–1920, Museum of Fine Arts, 2007 - nº 132
Berlin, Französische Meisterwerke des 19. Jahrhunderts aus dem Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Neue Nationalgalerie , 2007
Nagoya, Modigliani, a retrospective, Nagoya City Art Museum, 2008 - nº 35
Himeji, Modigliani, a retrospective, Himeji City Museum of Art, 2008 ?
Iwate, Modigliani, a retrospective, Morioka Iwate Museum of Art, 2008 ?
Nagoya, Modigliani, a retrospective,, The Chunichi Shimbun, 2008 ?
Bonn, Amedeo Modigliani: Ein Mythos der Moderne, Bundesrepublik, 2009 - nº 116


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Other
Nº 44 in D'Atri papers with dates corrected from 1917 and later to 1919-20 - size 116 x 73 - correct provenance and exhibition list

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Signature of the painting:

signature


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Detail of the ears where the drawing is clearly visible and is painted over the color (on top of the color)

ears


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The painting framed in the Marx´s home in 1952

at the marx home in the 50's


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The painting in Paris, Modigliani, Galerie Bing et Cie, 1925:

Paris, Modigliani, Galerie Bing et Cie, 1925 - nº 6




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